‘The war on asylum and the war on terror – one the unarmed invasion, the other the armed enemy within, have produced the idea of a nation under siege, and, on the ground, a racism that cannot tell a settler from an immigrant, an immigrant from an asylum seeker, an asylum seeker from a Muslim, a Muslim from a terrorist.

All of us non-whites, at first sight, are terrorists or illegals. We wear our passports on our faces – or lacking them, we are faceless, destitute, taken from our children, voided of the last shreds of human dignity.’